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Photo: The cohort reflects at Wat Phutthanimit Phu Khao in northeast Thailand, Kalasin district after a site visit. (Photo by Kanat Naktanomsub, courtesy of Getty)

Getting the joke. Difficult pasts and difficult sites of learning in Thailand and beyond
To me, as an Indonesianist, or ‘Island Southeast Asianist’ as Panggah Ardiyansyah, Zainab Tahir and I would call ourselves initially in the CO-OP context, our first group visit and traveling seminar, to...
Drifting ships: who owns the cargo? 
It was strikingly sunny in early January 2024 when the CO-OP cohort visited the Plai Bat II site in Buriram Province, Thailand. The site lies atop a hill in the Prakhon Chai region, a perfect location...
'The Tragedy of Phanom Rung' from 1971 by Hiram Woodward, under the pseudonym D.W. Ward
In reflecting on Phanom Rung with Soumya James, we sought permission from Hiram Woodward to post this piece published in 1971 in the Bangkok Standard Magazine, which he kindly gave along with an accompanying...
A Visit to Phanom Rung
Our group visited the Phanom Rung Historical Park where we saw two lintels that were stolen and thence returned. The lintels traversed through multiple cultures1 and time scales, national boundaries and...
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